Re: Comrade Gonzalez

[Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like many on the list I am sure have been proud to read these accounts. I
now think that the authorities in Washington will realise that they have
made a terrible mistake in supporting and condoning the kidnapping and will
allow the boy to go free.  The longer the quiet dignity and courage of the
father is contrasted with the hysteria of the exiles the worse for the US govt.

regards

Gary
At 07:46  18/04/00 -0400, you wrote:


>On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:07:36 -0400 "Charles Brown"
><CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >
> > >>> Julio Fernández Baraibar <julfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 04/18/00
> > 02:40PM >>>
> > > >>> Debordagoria <phantasmagorias@xxxxxxxxx> 04/18/00 11:50AM >>>
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Charles Brown <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Elian's father is a comrade, Communist Party member,
> > > > according to the Sixty Minutes interview with him.
> > >
> > > Does being a member of the Cuban CP automatically mean
> > > one is a Marxist, and thus a "comrade"?
> > > Just wondering.
> > >
> > > ____________
> > >
> > > CB: I usually give someone who says they are a communist the
> > benefit of a
> > doubt until they show me something otherwise.  I presume in favor of
> > those
> > who declare themselves communists.
> > >
> > >
> > > CB
> >
> > A simple worker and cuban citizen who is able to mantain the dignity
> > of Juan
> > Miguel in front of the provocative questions made by the CBS
> > journalist,
> > able to answer what he answered midst the terrible and pressing
> > situations
> > that he is living IS MY COMRADE, marxist or not marxist, comunist or
> > not
> > comunist. And besides he is comunist. What in the hell means to be
> > marxist
> > in this context I don't know.
> >
> > ________________
> >
> >
> > CB: I agree with Julio. I would add that I am sure that Karl Marx
> > would be proud as hell of Comrade Gonzalez.
> >
> > CBS/Dan Rather, on Sixty Minutes,  asked Comrade Gonzalez, why he
> > didn't want to "defect" to the U.S. and "freedom". Gonzalez, asked
> > rhetorically, "what is freedom ?"  In Cuba , children can go to
> > school without threat of being shot. That is not true in the U.S.
> > That is not freedom.
> >
> >  How do you like that, CBS/Dan Rather ?
>
>Presumably, Dan must like the ratings this interview is getting.  I
>rather liked
>Gonzalez's quiet demolition of Rather's bombast.  I remember the French
>philosopher Louis Althusser writing about how he became drawn to
>communism
>after having the experienced as a POW during WW II the dignity and
>courage  and plain
>moral integrity that was shown by fellow POWs who were communists.  They
>too were
>mainly working men.  I suspect that they were not too different from
>Gonzalez.
>
> >
> > When Rather asked him why the Miami junta would make false claims
> > that Gonzalez is an abusive father, Gonzalez started his response
> > with " Imagine that I would have to answer such a question ."
>
>Quite impressive.
>
>Jim F.
>
> >
> > CB
> >
>
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